A chunk of rock that blasted off Mars and crash-landed on Earth is turning out to be one of the richest archives of ancient Martian water ever found. New scans of the famous “Black Beauty” meteorite ...

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A new study has revealed that the iconic Black Beauty meteorite contains much more hidden water than previously suspected.

Researchers using neutron scanning technology have discovered a hidden reservoir of ancient water locked inside the Martian ...

Scientists have scanned a popular rock from Mars and they found something surprising. The meteorite, known as Black Beauty or ...

In geology terms, a clast is just a word for a small rock fragment stuck inside a bigger rock. Finding clasts isn't ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth somewhere near Purdue and is one of ...

Organic compounds found in Mars rocks are too abundant to rule out the possibility of Martian life in the red planet’s history, NASA scientists say. In March of 2025, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered ...

Mars has a clear structure in its mantel, and its crust includes distinct reservoirs, scientists have said. Those are the findings from meteorites that originated 1.3 billion years ago on the red ...